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Spanish Formosa ( Spanish: Gobernación de Hermosa española) was a small colony of the Spanish Empire established in the northern tip of the island now known as Taiwan, then known to Europeans at the time as Formosa or to Spaniards as "Isla Hermosa" from 1626 to 1642. It was ceded to the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War .
Radio Taiwan International ( RTI; Chinese: 中央廣播電臺; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Guǎngbò Diàntái) is the English name and call sign of the Central Broadcasting System ( CBS ), national broadcaster and international radio service of Taiwan. It is a government-owned station that broadcasts in 14 languages around the world via the internet ...
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Spain; ( Chinese: 駐西班牙台北代表處; pinyin: Zhù Xībānyá Dàibiǎo Chù) ( Spanish: Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipei en España) represents the interests of Taiwan in Spain in the absence of formal diplomatic relations, functioning as a de facto embassy. Its counterpart in Taiwan ...
The Republican government fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's Communists who set up the People's Republic of China. China says any decisions on Taiwan's future are ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan seeks "peaceful coexistence" with China with free and unrestricted interaction but the island will be democratic for generations to come, President Tsai Ing-wen said in ...
Cross-strait relations. Territories currently administered by the two governments that formally use the name China: the PRC (in purple) and the ROC (in orange). The size of minor islands is exaggerated in this map for ease of identification. Cross-strait relations (sometimes called Mainland–Taiwan relations, [1] China–Taiwan relations or ...
May 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM. By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard. TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te asked China on Monday to stop its military and political threats, saying in his ...
Contact between China and Spain first occurred between the Ming dynasty of China and the Spanish-ruled Philippines, in which Spain believed it could take over China.. When the Chinese pirate Limahong attacked Manila in 1574, officials in Fujian Province were willing to let the Spanish establish a trade port on an island south of Xiamen, in return for Limahong's capture.